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2 planes collide during landing at Watsonville Municipal Airport; multiple fatalities reported

2 planes collide during landing at Watsonville Municipal Airport; multiple fatalities reported

WATSONVILLE, Calif. (KGO) — Multiple fatalities are reported after two planes collided while attempting to land at the same time at Watsonville Municipal Airport just before 3 p.m. on Thursday. California Highway Patrol said that at approximately 2:56 p.m. multiple agencies responded to a report of a midair planes collision at the Watsonville airport. According to a representative from the…

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'Multiple fatalities' after two planes crash above California airport

‘Multiple fatalities’ after two planes crash above California airport

At least two people were killed when two planes collided while trying to land at an airport in California. The planes, a twin-engine Cessna 340 and a single-engine Cessna 152, crashed into one another shortly before 3pm on Thursday above Watsonville Municipal Airport. Two people were aboard the Cessna 340 and only the pilot was aboard the Cessna 152, according to the Federal Aviation…

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At least two dead after planes crash mid-air when they went to land at same time

At least two dead after planes crash mid-air when they went to land at same time

A witness said one plane suddenly veered into another as they neared the tarmac (Picture: AP) At least two people have died after a mid-air collision between two small planes over an airport in California, officials say. A twin-engine Cessna 340 propeller plane with two people aboard and a single-engine Cessna 152 carrying only its pilot were trying to land at an airport in Watsonville, according…

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Two Planes Crash In Midair Killing Multiple people

Two Planes Crash In Midair Killing Multiple people

Authorities confirmed Thursday that many passengers were killed after two aircraft collided over a California airfield. A single-engine Cessna 152 with one person on board and a twin-engine Cessna 340 with two people on board collided as they attempted to land at Watsonville Municipal Airport at 3 p.m. local time, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Multiple casualties were…

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"Multiple #fatalities" were reported after two small #planes #collided mid-air at a #California #airport on Thursday, officials said. The crash occurred shortly before 3 p.m. local time at the #Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, an agricultural area located about 50 miles south of #SanJose, officials said. The two planes were attempting to land when they collided, the city of Watsonville said on social media. "We have reports of multiple fatalities," it said. A single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 "collided while the pilots were on their final approaches," the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Three people were on board the planes -- one in the Cessna 152 and two in the Cessna 340 -- the agency said, though it did not provide an update on their conditions. No injuries were reported to anyone on the ground, it said. The city later tweeted it was "absolutely saddened to hear about the tragic incident that took the lives of several people." "The City of Watsonville sends its deepest condolences to the friends and family of those who passed," it added. "We are grieving tonight from this unexpected and sudden loss," Watsonville Mayor Ari Parker said. "I want to express my deepest and most heartfelt condolences." The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office said it responded to an aircraft collision on Aviation Way near the airport and secured the scene with the Watsonville Police Department. An investigation is underway by the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA. https://www.instagram.com/p/ChbIJDAL6f_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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LATEST NEWS: Two planes collide mid-air at California airport

LATEST NEWS: Two planes collide mid-air at California airport

Publish date: 2022-08-19 01:12:45 | Author: Agency Report | Source: punchng.com Two small planes collided above an airport in California on Thursday, officials said, with multiple fatalities reported. Federal aviation authorities said two people were on board a twin-engine Cessna 340, and one person was flying in a single-engine Cessna 152. The planes “collided while the pilots were on their…

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Fatalities Reported After 2 Planes Collide in California : Inside US

Fatalities Reported After 2 Planes Collide in California : Inside US

WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Multiple fatalities have been reported after two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport, officials said Thursday. The collision occurred at Watsonville Municipal Airport shortly before 3 p.m., according to a tweet from the city of Watsonville. There were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a…

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Plane in San Diego County crash was warned it was flying low

Plane in San Diego County crash was warned it was flying low

SANTEE, Calif. —  A twin-engine plane that crashed in a San Diego suburb, killing at least two people and leaving a swath of destruction, nose-dived into the ground after repeated warnings that it was flying dangerously low, according to a recording. The Cessna 340 smashed into a UPS van, killing the driver, and then hit houses just after noon Monday in Santee, a suburb of 50,000 people. The…

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Plane crash kills 2, burns homes in California neighborhood

Plane crash kills 2, burns homes in California neighborhood

SANTEE, Calif. (AP) — A twin-engine plane that killed at least two people and left a swath of destruction in a San Diego suburb nose-dived into the ground after repeated warnings that it was flying dangerously low, according to a recording. The Cessna 340 smashed into a UPS van, killing the driver, and then hit houses just after noon Monday in Santee, a suburb of 50,000 people. The pilot also is…

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5 flying on day trip to Florida Keys die in crash

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USA Today NetworkAndrew Krietz, WTSP-TV, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. Published 5:36 p.m. ET Dec. 24, 2017 | Updated 5:52 p.m. ET Dec. 24, 2017

The charred remains of a Cessna 340 twin-engine aircraft sat north of a runway Dec. 24, 2017, at Bartow (Fla.) Municipal Airport. Five people on their way to the Florida Keys for a day trip were killed in dense fog at…

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Going Direct: Dream Planes, Deposits and Disappointment

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I’ve been fascinated by the trials and tribulations of Tesla, the electric car maker famous and infamous for its cars capabilities and limitations. A high-profile crash while one of its vehicles was being “driven” on autopilot in Florida raised concerns about the readiness of the auto-drive feature, and the recent production and delivery logistics problems for the company’s new Model 3 have vexed buyers of that new car who have been waiting for ages to get their high-tech wheels. The thing about Teslas’s woes wasn’t that I’d never seen anything like it before. It was that I’ve seen exactly those same challenges time and time again in the aviation world.

One of the coolest things in the history of aviation is the personal jet. So far there have been exactly two, arguably three of them that have had any kind of impact in aviation, and two out of the three were mixed bags—I wouldn’t argue hard if someone said all three were. These are the Cessna Citation Don’t Call Me a VLJ Mustang, the billion-dollar debacle that was and still kind of is the Eclipse EA 500, and the Cirrus SF-50 Vision Jet. I’ve flown all three of them and it’s not a stretch to say that I love them all even though they are very different planes. But thank goodness I didn’t have the optimism or the bank account to put a deposit down on one.

Well, to be fair, the Mustang was everything Cessna said it was going to be, unfortunately including being not that fast and not that powerful. With its gorgeous little Pratt & Whitney PW615-F turbofans of just under 1500-lbs of thrust each, the Mustang was an exercise in restraint and economy, and it showcased Cessna’s ability to build an airplane that was a lower price point than its previous entry-level turbofan, the CitationJet. The Mustang had even less performance, with a top cruise speed of around 340 knots, which is not that much faster than a TBM 850 of the day. The Mustang, which lasted almost ten years in production with 479 built, was also proof positive that it might be impossible to successfully scale down the twin-jet. The problem is, even for a really small jet, and the Mustang is pretty small, you still need every system you put on a bigger jet. And just because they’re smaller doesn’t mean they’re cheaper. And in the case of some things, smaller can mean much harder to successfully engineer.

Don’t get me wrong. Cessna certainly succeeded in the Mustang. It’s just that the end product wound up being something that was unprofitable to build and financially unsound for customers to buy, at least in terms of the performance it offered for the buck. Toward the end of the Mustang run, it was around a $3 million airplane that Cessna surely wished it could charge more for, and with its current entry-level CJ, the M2, going for just over $4 million while offering close to 70 knots better speed, a higher ceiling, better… well, faster and better everything, the case for the Mustang was hard to make. Cessna put the pony out to pasture and encouraged customers to ride an M2 instead.

Early Mustang adopters at least got what they were looking to get. As with just about every Cessna we can think of in the long history of the company (now a part of Textron Aviation along with Beechcraft) the Mustang met its performance targets. They just weren’t very lofty performance targets. And the Mustang—remember there are almost 500 of them out there flying around—remains a popular plane in the used market, because it really is a great starter jet, though in this case, getting to know the Mustang as one’s first jet will lead invariably to wanting a better, i.e., faster jet.

None of that was true for the Eclipse 500, which represents one of the biggest fiascos in general aviation history and which remains one of the coolest airplanes in GA history, as well. The EA 500 also has the Pratt 600-series engine, though, at just 900 pounds of thrust each, they’re even tinier versions than the Mustang. The Pratt wasn’t the first engine Eclipse eyed for its jet. The company had originally tabbed Williams International to supply it with a new, diminutive turbofan, but it didn’t work out. Eclipse abandoned the Williams mill and went with the Pratt, and if you know anything about jet programs, an engine swap mid-program might not be a death sentence, but if it’s not, death might have been preferable.

The Eclipse program, which had no end of problems to begin with, including its business model based on a future-world fantasy, that of skies filled to bursting with Eclipse jets taking excited passengers around the country on a per-seat model of a charter that never came close to being true. Their customers were a thorn in their side as they were negotiating their day to day. That customer base consisted of pilots passionate about a sub-million-dollar 370-knot mini-jet. Most of those customers paid their money but never saw their plane. And as time passed and the company accrued debt while struggled to certify and produce a plane, the outcome was plain to see, even as the company continued with its parties and marketing blitzes.

Cirrus Aircraft, which successfully certified and produced the SF-50 Vision Jet, breezed through the process. That is if 10 years of development, the departure of the company co-founder and a change in ownership is part of the breezing process. Buyers put down $100,000 deposits originally, and those first adopters finally started getting their jets a couple of years ago. Unlike with the Eclipse Jet, which got updates on the fly for years after its certification, the Vision Jet hit deliveries running and hitting its numbers.

So as I read about Tesla’s challenges and Elon Musk’s calm reassurances, I can’t help but think about the plight of the early adopter. Innovative companies sorely need their enthusiasm and their investment, but the people who get hardest when innovative companies run up against roadblocks are often those very same early adopters. And I can only hope they still have an old car to drive around in or, in the case of those folks who put down big deposits for planes they never saw, that they had plenty of extra money in reserve.

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Skies clear for India’s aviation industry to take off in a big way

India is projected to become the third-largest aviation market by 2026 and the largest by 2030.                                                                                      

Aviation is a great industry. It is a force for good in the world that generates wealth—both material and of the human spirit. It has enormous potential—particularly in this region.

Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO, said: “These are good times for the global air transport industry. Safety performance is solid. We have a clear strategy that is delivering results on environmental performance. More people than ever are travelling. The demand for air cargo is at its strongest level in over a decade. Employment is growing. More routes are being opened. Airlines are achieving sustainable levels of profitability. It’s still, however, a tough business, and we are being challenged on the cost front by rising fuel, labour and infrastructure expenses.”

All the signs are positive. The future looks bright and without turbulence. The upswing in policy support, conducive business conditions, varied investment opportunities, open markets for foreign direct investments (FDI) and increased investments have been reflected in growing aircraft fleet size, strategic location, a trained pool of highly skilled engineering expertise clubbed with lower labour cost—all of these coming together as an entity.

This strength gives India the edge to be a global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) hub in the longer term. Growth seen in the aviation segment is resulting in an increased demand for MRO facilities. According to Boeing estimates, the Indian fleet will reach 1,200 in size by 2020. India at present has 400 commercial and 700 general aviation aircraft—300 business jets, 300 small planes and 250 helicopters are expected to be added to the current fleet over the next five years.

India is one of the fastest growing aviation markets and currently the ninth largest civil aviation market in the world with a market size of around $16 billion. India is projected to become the third-largest aviation market by 2026 and the largest by 2030.

India’s status as the fastest growing aviation market in the world creates tremendous opportunities. However, the risks are also heightened as the inadequacy of India’s infrastructure planning, a fast emerging shortage of skills, flawed policy initiatives, and weak regulatory oversight, threaten to become major stumbling blocks. The potential is enormous, but unless the government bites the bullet, it will be seriously constrained.

The future surge has received a push from the past growth from 10 years ago. This period alone eclipses that of the past 50 years. Domestic traffic could grow by nearly 25% in FY2018 and approach 130 million passengers, while international airport traffic has gone up from 22 million passengers to 55 million passengers. Interestingly, the increase in domestic airport traffic in the past 10 years is about three times that of domestic airport traffic in the past 50 years. At present, India has over 430 aircraft in service, and 783 on order. Aside from this, an additional 250-300 orders remain in the pipeline from various airlines. This ratio of orders to in-service aircraft is the highest out of all major markets around the world. At present, most of the top 10 airlines are achieving year round load factors of 90% or higher, indicating constrained capacity. A consistent traffic growth of 20% for 3-5 years will consume scarce capacity without significant productivity improvements at both AAI (Airport Authority of India) and PPP (Public Private Partnership) airports.

Traffic is expected to grow by about 20% during the financial years of 2017 and 2018. During the next 18-24 months, airlines in India are expected to add 100 more aircraft.

The highest growth market is projected to be to and from the Indian subcontinent area at 5%, followed by intra-Middle East travel at 4.3%. The most heavily travelled routes, in total passenger terms, will continue to be to and from European markets.

India is expected to continue and experience economic growth at higher than the world average during the next 20 years. In addition, the 18.2% air travel growth projection provides a strong foundation for expansion by the region’s airlines.

The main thrust for a build up of the regional network in India should come from two directions. The first, in realising that pride and prestige routes are no longer viable and that large aircraft with 35% load factors are not the answer to servicing secondary airports. So far, the region has been slow to accept the role of the below 80-seater aircraft.

There should also be a corresponding increase in bizjets with charters and outright corporate investment adding a boost to this category.

There seems to exist a belief that turboprops are passé as against turbofans and little is underscored about the fact that on 40-minute runs, the costs saved on modern day high efficiency props without compromise in comfort and safety. The time loss is not even three to five minutes to the hour.

With executive traffic showing a rise and leisure tourism coming into play, especially in short haul routes, the impact will be positive—as will be the opening of new markets in the interiors.

The upswing in the bizjet market is gaining impetus again and the lull of the past two years is showing a certain surge. Bombardier’s Global 5000 leads the resurgence and one can see how the company is positioning its wide range of aircraft (from the Lear45XR to the Global 5000 and the Challenger 300 as well as the Global Express) for the Indian markets. Close on the heels of the Global Express came the Bombardier Continental Business jet aircraft, clearly designed to offer high value in the emerging super midsize business jet category.

Not only is the interest perking again where charters have achieved a certain upmarket texture to their operational envelope, the Falcons, Cessnas, Gulf stream and the Learjet family are also very popular choices.

With jet flight hours assessed at reaching the 7 million mark by 2017, this is a vibrant and vigorous market. No longer is the biz jet seen as an indulgence and governments, corporations and celebrities are all recognizing the financial and efficiency advantages of having access to one’s own aircraft.

Even traditional accountants have done their homework and discovered it is a happy bottom line addition.

Boeing Forecasts demand for 2,100 New Airplanes in India

According to Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president, Asia Pacific and India Sales, Boeing Commercial Airplanes: “Commercial aerospace demand in India continues to grow at unprecedented rates.” Keskar added: “The increasing number of passengers combined with a strong exchange rate, low fuel prices and high load factors bode well for India’s aviation market, especially for the low-cost carriers.”

In the single aisle market, the A320 Family has enjoyed a high level of success across the region.

As is evident, the aviation sector in India is at a crucial juncture. With the potential for great profit and all-round growth on the horizon, the right steps need to be taken to reach that goal. Proper investments in airports and not just aircraft, and bilateral air services agreements, will lead to a well-balanced growth in the years to come.

The Indian aviation industry requires 675 new commercial jet airplanes worth $65 billion in the next two decades.

As much as 41% of the new deliveries will be intermediate-size twin-aisle airplanes, a significantly higher proportion than is expected in other regions.

More than half, or 351 airplanes delivered, will be single-aisle and small regional jets. Meanwhile, just 5% will be 747-size and larger, although that figure could change dramatically if the A380 orders take off.

The need for new airplanes is required to support a 18.7% annual increase in air travel serving India, the percentages could change and rise as high as 20.8 % per year.

Low cost airlines, the slew of Indian carriers and the market underscore the trend.

Domestic traffic could grow by nearly 25% in FY2018 and approach 130 million passengers.

It is a market with enormous potential. But aviation’s development is being held back by shortsighted government policies. High taxes mean that fuel accounts for an average of 45% of an Indian airline’s operating costs—against an industry average of 32%. A lack of capacity in the country’s economic heart—Mumbai—restricts connectivity, while development of the new Navi Mumbai airport seems to incur a fresh roadblock at every stage of its development. And where world-class infrastructure has been built—as in Delhi—costs are an issue. Proposals to boost charges by 340% may earn it distinction as one of the world’s most expensive airports, but it will destroy Delhi’s competitiveness as a hub.

The stunted growth of Indian aviation comes with an economic cost. Compared to India’s population size, the number of aviation jobs are on a higher side at 1.7 million. And the economic contribution of aviation is still only 0.5% of the Indian economy. It is an important 0.5%. But even considering the GDP per capita in India, these numbers tell us that there is unused potential in India. There is a need to reassess policies in order for aviation to reach its potential as a primary contributor to India’s economic growth.

There are six billionaires across the world who derive the majority of their wealth from aviation, according to Forbes, and all of them are from Asia. Two Indians—IndiGo’s Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal—are No. 1 and No. 2 respectively, while another is poised to enter the club. The phenomenal turnaround of India’s third-largest airline SpiceJet is propelling its chairman and managing director Ajay Singh closer to the aviation billionaires’ group.

India will truly be flying high when these six become 60 and 1.2 billion Indians take to the air.

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Five people die in a plane crash in Florida

Five people lost their lives today when the twin-engine plane in which they were traveling in central Florida crashed, moments after taking off, authorities said.

According to the Twitter account of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the Cessna 340 plane crashed at the end of a runway near Ben Durrance Road, possibly due to fog, which provided little or no visibility. “Five people in total were on…

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Florida Plane Crash in Dense Fog Kills 5 on Christmas Eve

He arrived around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday bearing the small gifts that the employees at a municipal Florida airport had come to expect from him. (On Christmas Eve, they were cookies.)

He also dropped off a flight plan that indicated he would take an approximately 45-minute flight to the Florida Keys for a family getaway before returning later in the day.

But shortly after taking off in dense fog near Tampa, the pilot, John H. Shannon, 70, and four others — including two of his daughters — were killed in a crash, the authorities said. The twin-engine plane burst into flames after going down at Bartow Municipal Airport in Polk County, Fla.

The Cessna aircraft took off despite thick fog that had settled over the airport shortly before sunrise and had limited visibility to less than one-fifth of a mile.

“No one should have attempted to take off in a small plane in that weather,” Grady Judd, the Polk County sheriff, said at a news conference on Sunday.

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An airport employee who was filming the fog on a cellphone recorded the sounds of the plane taking off and crashing, Sheriff Judd said. The fog was so thick that the plane could not be seen in the video, he said.

Also killed on Sunday were two of Mr. Shannon’s daughters, Olivia Shannon, 24, and Victoria Shannon Worthington, 26, as well as Ms. Worthington’s husband, Peter Worthington, 27. A family friend, Krista Clayton, 32, was also on board, the authorities said. The group had planned to eat lunch in Key West.

“It’s a tragedy of monumental proportions when it happens on Christmas Eve,” said Sheriff Judd, who said he had been friends with Mr. Shannon for years.

Mr. Shannon had been planning to take the trip from Lakeland, Fla., where he lived, to the Florida Keys with his daughters for the holidays, said John Liguori, a friend. Over coffee several days ago, Mr. Shannon told him he would depart on Christmas Eve or Christmas, depending on the weather.

“More than the flight, he was looking forward to spending time with his two girls and the husband of his daughter,” Mr. Liguori, a lawyer in Lakeland, said in a phone interview.

Ms. Worthington and her husband arrived on Friday from Baltimore, where they lived. She taught fourth-grade English at a public school in Baltimore, and Mr. Worthington attended law school. They were married in June, and her father’s Facebook profile photo shows him with his daughters at her wedding.

Ms. Shannon attended Southeastern University, a private Christian college in Lakeland. Ms. Clayton, a middle school teacher, had a husband and two children — a 3-year-old girl and an 18-month-old.

Mr. Liguori said that Mr. Shannon, a longtime personal injury lawyer, changed his lifestyle after he separated from the daughters’ mother when they were young. He gave up golf and devoted himself to them, he said. Mr. Shannon had another daughter from a previous marriage, Mr. Liguori said.

Mr. Shannon was still practicing law, and had also embraced two other passions: politics and planes. He ran for Florida state representative in 2014 as a Republican and lost in a primary election by fewer than 175 votes. In 2010 he received his pilot’s license and flew regularly, including on trips to Alabama to visit a daughter in college, Mr. Liguori said.

He said that Mr. Shannon, a former Marine, took both his legal practice and flying seriously. “He was very focused when he flew,” he said.

On Sunday morning, the Cessna 340 briefly lifted off the runway but quickly plunged to the ground, the authorities said. A sheriff’s deputy who responded to a 911 call found the wreckage in flames in a grass field.

The cause of the crash is under investigation. But Sheriff Judd said it appeared that fog could have been a factor in the accident. About 45 minutes before the plane took off, the National Weather Service in Tampa reported low visibility at regional airports and forecast worsening fog after sunrise. Visibility at the Bartow airport was 0.15 miles at 7:15 a.m., the Weather Service said.

“That’s being quite generous,” Cindy Barrow, the executive director at the Bartow airport, said in an interview. “What I was understanding was that visibility was pretty much zero.”

Ms. Barrow said that the control tower was closed for Christmas Eve but that pilots like Mr. Shannon can decide to take off on their own. She noted that pilots who fly in those conditions must be experienced because they have to use a plane’s instruments, as opposed to looking outside, to determine speed, altitude and direction.

Sheriff Judd said a pilot with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office who was at the airport at the time of the crash told him that conditions were unsafe for small aircraft. “The conditions were not conducive for taking off this morning,” the sheriff said.

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